Firefox Web Browser Tips
Over the course of my programming career I have worked with all web browsers including Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari. Out of all these browsers Firefox is my favorite. It has great documentation and support, a large community, and fantastic plugins/add-ons. If you use Firefox too then you may find the following helpful. Read more…
Warning: Expression Result Is Never Used
I was recently quality control checking some code and decided to run the code analyzer in my IDE, Zend Studio, as an ancillary step in my review process. I received a couple of warnings which stated “Expression result is never used”. Despite the warning the PHP code worked just fine. After further investigation I discovered why the analyzer was throwing the warning message. Read more…
Warning: Assignment In Condition
I was recently writing some simple procedural scripts without using my favorite framework, Zend Framework, and was using the code analyzer in my IDE, Zend Studio, when I got an “Assignment in condition” warning. Some of the code I had copied directly from php.net. When I looked further into the warning I discovered the problem. Read more…
Deleting Files And Directories With PHP
It’s not uncommon to be given project specifications that require the ability to dynamically delete directories and/or files. Sometimes we need to delete only one directory or file and other times we need to delete multiple directories or files. There are also times when we need to recursively delete files and folders and this takes a little more effort. Read more…
Installing PEAR After Zend Server
This article is deprecated. Please see Windows, Zend Server, PEAR Installation instead.
As of this writing I’m using Zend Server CE version 5.1.0 for my WAMP stack on a Windows 7 64-bit machine. I was recently researching some open source tools that required PEAR yet for some reason I had not installed that yet. The PEAR installation was fairly straight forward but there were a couple small detours. I’ve documented my PEAR installation here for reference. Read more…
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